St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-30
AN ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
Judge KelIy's Address to the
Guest of the EYeninp


Guest of the Evening.
AS Bishop Ireland resumed his seat
Judge William l.. Kelly then uttered
the following address of welcome to the
cardinal:
Your Eminence: The kindly gentlemen
your friends and mine-who selected me
for the delicate and delightful duty
of the North Star state, little knew
what tender chords they touched in
my heart by their choice. Never until this
evening have had the honor to meet you,
and yet / feel as though you were my life
long friend, because in days that are gone
you stood very near to the heart and high in
the confidence of your illustrious predeces-
sor in the See of Baltimore, Martin John
erence and honor by all good mem. and he,
the great archbishop, was my fathers friend
and mine. What can say to you more than
this this distinguished presence b ire OF your fel-
to make you feel welcome to our midst?
What need say? You are no stranger to
us. welcome you, then, as cardinal in the
Catholic hierarchy as one deservedly' most
near to He,a the person a,na and representing
United States the sovereign pontiff.
refer especially to that white -robed old man
who to-day, shorn as he has been of every
Peter beside the Yellow Tiber, by the truth
of his teaching, by the purity of his life, by
the wisdom of his counsel. by the far-seeing
power OF his statesmanship, not only receives
the tilial homage and obedience of his more
than two hundred and fifty millions of spirit
ual children. but has won the respect, ave.
more than the respect of every civilized gov
ernment. l refer to Leo XIII., who under
God has been privileged, as his predecessors
more than once have been, to stay the hand
of war from desolating Europe-and at
whose feet even the Iron Chancellor of the
German Umpire has bowed at last:c But great
as your spiritual Office is-honored and loved
as you are on that account by your children
of the faith-I welcome you.
BY ANOTHER TITLE.
It. too, is kingly in its significance. I well
come you as one who stands first among the
citizens of the great republic You come to
us, too, fresh from scene memorable in the
history of the republic. For but yesterday in
a city called 'Brotherly Love- at the invita-
ton of your fellow citizens irrespective of
religious faith or political association, you
priest, archbishop, cardinal, raised your
hands above the assembled multitudes,
and in the name of your sacred office
invoked the blessing of the Almighty
states upon its hundredth anniversary
We welcome you as coming from an ancient
see, most honorable in the history of the
church and state. For we cannot forget
upon an occasion like this that Charles Car
roll, of Carrollton, who signed our Declara-
ton of Independence and that John Carroll,
archbishop and statesman. friend of Wash
ington and counselor of the founders of this
nation, who from the chair you fill directed
the fortunes of the infant church of Amer
ica You were born in the home of the Car
rolls, both Yankee rebels to the core. Finally
welcome you to this city under the patron
age of the great
APOSTLE OF THE GENTILEs.
You tread on ground that has been hal
lowed by apostolic feet. To the east of us
flows the river of the Holy Cross while st.
Anthony keeps watch over the mighty falls
above. st. Paul is here-St. Peter, yonder,
while st. James, st. Charles and st. Joseph,
all speaking but one language. We are not
strangers here. but we are better still. On
all great questions, social and POLITICAL
Catholic and Protestant stand here side by
side. We are staunch in our religious faith
and they in theirs--and the
honesty OF neither is questioned;
that cordial and Catholic condition Of things